donderdag 27 februari 2014

Ed Snowden’s latest leaked documents open the lid on what is perhaps the most vindictive and disgusting aspect of the government-corporate joint surveillance state seen yet…

This is Britain’s GCHQ how-to guide for Online Covert Action which, according to Glenn Greenwald (see links below) has been shared with US agencies like the NSA. Upon review, it can only be described as government-sponsored subterfuge of domestic society.

According to these latest documents, there are paid government agent/contractor persons on social media posing as someone they are not, whilst on the payroll of the government. Their job is to befriend members of the alternative media, embed themselves in the ebb and flow of day-to-day communications, and then to engage in elaborate subterfuge – by any means necessary. The training exercise below uses terms like “befriend”, “infiltrate”, “mask/mimic”, “ruse”, “set-up”, “disrupt”, “create cognitive stress”, “use deception”, “ruin business relationships”, and “post negative information on appropriate forums” – all of which is not only illegal and morally bankrupt, but also runs completely contrary to the very fundamental ‘values’ and indeed founding principles, of a modern free democratic society or constitutional republic.

Government targets in this malicious operation appear to be bloggers, activists, journalists, social event organisers and anyone else deemed to be a ‘emerging leader’ or voice in the public sphere, or alternative media online.

This obviously extends way beyond the practice of employing paid ‘trolls’ to pollute comment sections and redirect forum threads – which still exists under both government and corporate umbrellas.

Thanks to Ed Snowden (photo, left), the public – as well as moral individuals within government and the judiciary, might fully realise just how these sort of underhanded, and unlawful operations have sunk to the lowest possible levels.

It’s not enough that the governments of both the UK and US are blanket spying on each other’s populations and then swapping data, but now we see how they are aggressively targeting individuals in secret, undermining them and eventually setting out to destroy them – and all the while employing organised deception (with the full backing of the state security apparatus) to achieve a series of said ‘outcomes’.

That’s conspiracy to defraud, and it’s against the law in any modern civilised society.

One has to pose the question: is this type of government sanctioned gang-stalking and conspiracy to defraud civilised? Most people would answer ‘no’ of course, but unfortunately most people are not making the decisions regarding these new malicious soviet-style programs in Britain and the US.

It’s so comforting to know that the governments of Great Britain and the United States have allocated public money not only to spy on their own innocent citizens, but also that ample public money is also being spent to actively undermine free speech, derail small businesses, to entrap and intentionally defraud and defame unsuspecting citizens that are deemed targets by some secret committee – all carried out in an extrajudicial (outside of the law) way.

Sounds very much like those horrific East German Stasi tales we all point to as history’s archetypal low-point of modern society.

Those who know their history, know that this type of aggressive state attack against its own citizens has nothing to do with ‘national security’ or ‘terrorism’, but is merely a case of the state using its muscle against those who are shining a spotlight on its shortcoming and internal government corruption and criminal behaviour.

By (almost) anyone’s metric, it’s a shameful chapter in history.

Hat-tip to the team at The Rundown Live for compiling this comprehensive and important report…

New Edward Snowden leaks have surfaced showing us how American intelligence agencies are attempting to manipulate and control online behavior even going to the extremes of setting people up using what the GCHQ calls ”Honey Traps“. They then go on to force you into behavior you may not otherwise of been in and use the information to discredit American patriots who oppose the current establishment.

“Over the last several weeks, I worked with NBC News to publish a series of articles about “dirty trick” tactics used by GCHQ’s previously secret unit, JTRIG (Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group).

The files (below) show how shill agents infiltrate the internet to manipulate, stage and attempt to corrupt reputations. Is it OK for the NSA (or GCHQ) to use tax payer dollars and technology that was intended to prevent foreign attacks to discredit American citizens? Are these extreme tactics of deception by our government honorable?

These documents show how the GCHQ trains and engages in “false flag operations” to purposely deceive and set individuals up (online)…

More than 1,000 doctors and other health care professionals, many gagged from telling patients about fracking chemicals such as radiation, benzene and arsenic in air and water making them sick, told President Obama on Thursday to take steps needed to protect Americans from alarming fracking risks kept secret from the the public.

Photo above: Fracking opponents protest before the Tom Corbett inauguration to become the 46th governor of Pennsylvania at the state capitol in Harrisburg, Pa., Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2011.

Environment America delivered a letter Thursday with over 1,000 signatures from health care professionals asking Obama to declare a fracking ban on certain areas in the U.S. and ensure fracking is no longer exempt from environmental laws, like the Clean Water Act and Clean Air Act.

The letter outlines secret dangers fracking poses to human health and the environment, including drinking water contamination, carcinogenic air pollution, acute and chronic health effects, and greenhouse gas emissions.

Each of those threats increasingly takes its toll on humans, according to the letter that includes the following explanations:

• Fracking operations have contaminated drinking water sources from Pennsylvania to New Mexico. Leaks and spills of fracturing fluid – which often contain known carcinogens (e.g. benzene) and endocrine-disrupting chemicals – have polluted rivers and streams. Other contaminants have flowed into residential wells. And fracking wastewater – often containing heavy metals (e.g. lead, arsenic) and radioactive materials (e.g. radon, uranium) – has leached from hundreds of waste pits intogroundwater.

• Air contaminants released from fracking operations include volatile organic compounds (VOCs); some are carcinogenic, and some damage the liver, kidneys and central nervous system. Researchers at the University of Colorado School of Public Health found thatpeople living within a half-mile of gas fracking wells had a higher excess lifetime risk of developing cancer than people living farther away.

• There are a growing number of documented cases of individuals suffering acute and chronic health effects while living near fracking operations – including nausea, rashes, dizziness, headaches and nose bleeds. Physicians reviewing medical records in Pennsylvania have called these illnesses “the tip of the iceberg” of fracking impacts on health; and

• Fracking operations release significant volumes of global warming pollution. Methane, which scientists now say is 86 times more potent than carbon as a greenhouse gas over 20 years, is released at oil and gas fracking wells, and also during the processing, transmission, and distribution of gas. Global warming presents a major threat to human health via heat waves, extreme weather events, flooding, water contamination, sea level rise, expansion…

“Given this toll of damage, the prudent and precautionary response would be to stop fracking,” the letter reads. “Instead, the oil and gas industry is seeking to expand fracking at a frenzied pace, even into areas that provide drinking water for millions of Americans.”

Gagging doctors, covering up fracking death and destruction

A report from Pennsylvania last year documented various health problems affecting residents living near natural gas operations.

In Pennsylvania, however, a gag order prevents doctors from telling their patients what chemicals from fracking solutions might be the cause of their illnesses.

The same has happened throughout the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Doctors were not only gagged, they were threatened with abuse if they told patients the truth about Corexit and oil making people sick, miscarry, unable to breathe, and even killing some people. (Vampire Of Macondo)

Shocking and heartbreaking experiences are provided in a video below by this author with Faulkner County human rights defenders. Fracking-related house explosions, suicides and miscarriages and infant mortality in Faulkner County have been hidden, according to the group of people who met with Dupré in Greenbrier in Jan. 2013.

The doctors’ letter to Obama highlights possible health effects of fracking, many well-documented but not easily accessible to the public.

It also notes the “growing number of documented cases of individuals suffering acute and chronic health effects while living near fracking operations – including nausea, rashes, dizziness, headaches and nose bleeds.”

The letter notes dangers of fracking wastewater, that has spilled and leached into groundwater in the past.

An October report found fracking wells in the U.S. generated 280 billion gallons of toxic wastewater in 2012, some of it radioactive. This wastewater is often stored in deep wells. Over time, however, many of these wells fail and contaminate water resources. In New Mexico alone, chemicals from oil and gas pits have contaminated water sources at least 421 times, according to the October report.

Right now, fracking regulations are largely left up to the states.

Earlier this year, the EPA did issue guidance on injecting diesel fuel into the ground during the fracking process, a practice which companies must get EPA approval for the most part, however, fracking laws vary widely from state to state.

California, in 2013, enacted one of the country’s stricter fracking laws. Among other things, it will require oil and gas companies to list chemicals they use in the fracking process online.

The author of a recent Haynes manual on UFOs has found plans for an elaborate worldwide UFO hoax for April on a remote controlled drone hobbyist forum. The organizers are asking remote controlled drone owners around the world to put LED lights on their aircraft and fly them around at a designated time on April 5, 2014.

UFO author Nigel Watson, who found the plans, says the stunt is being called The Big UFO Project. He says it was originally planned for April 1, but the date was changed “so that it will not seem like an obvious prank.”

Nigel Watson (Credit: Plymouth Herald)

He told Yahoo! News, “Anyone who has a multirotor drone or anything that can carry a strip of LED lights and hover is invited to join in this event.”

They plan on launching the drones at 8 pm local time, and Watson says they have gotten commitments from participants in the USA, UK, France, South Africa and the Netherlands.

Watson says the ultimate goal is to “cause a wave of UFO sightings around the world and an apocalypse-like idea in the media.”

He says:

It is surprising how easy it is to fool people into thinking they have seen a UFO, especially if it is a light in the sky. Satellite re-entries and meteors can be very striking and cause people to think they’ve seen a fast moving UFO streak across the sky.

For example, on the night of 30 March and early morning of 31 March 1993 numerous sightings were made throughout Britain of what was variously described as fast moving lights to a large craft resembling two Concordes flying side by side. Skeptics claim this was a combination of a Russian rocket booster re-entering the atmosphere and other mundane phenomena, but ufologists assert it was genuine UFO activity.

Watson says that videos of the drones may go viral, just like a UFO hoax perpetrated by a Canadian space center in September, 2013. Watsons says in the Canadian case, even when the hoax was revealed many still believed the event was extraterrestrial and that claims of it being a hoax were disinformation.

Watson believes the hoax may also act as a catalyst for other UFO sightings. He says, “This is a relatively simple and unsophisticated operation, but it could have a big media impact. When such incidents occur, people tend to look for UFOs in the sky and so it could trigger further sightings.”

Be on the lookout for drone “UFOs” this April. Although, now that the plans have been revealed, perhaps they will trick us all by changing the date; all the more reason to be ever vigilant when it comes to spotting drone hoaxes.

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It is also thought that now outlaw President Yanukvych has taken refuge at the Russian naval base in Sevastopol which also happens to be where the Ukrainian fleet is. There are rumours that Russian marines have begun some sort of operation in the Crimea at Sevastopol but as of now it is unconfirmed. There are also rumours that Russia has airlifted personnel of the 45th Airborne Special Forces Division from Kubinka and Pskov to Anapa as well as six MI-8 aircraft. (east of Ukraine border).

Today at 12:00 of Temryuk port (Russia) should arrive in Sevastopol large landing ship “Nikolai Fil’chenkov” with 200 soldiers on board. In this Monday, Feb. 24, citing its sources from the Crimea, the chairman of the Ukrainian faction “Freedom” Oleg Tyagnibok correspondent MFN.
“I can show sms” – said Tyahnibok and read: “Today at 12:00 foreseen arrival of Temryuk port in the Russian Federation in the city of Sevastopol large landing ship” Nikolai Fil’chenkov “from the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation. It takes about 200 armed soldiers 328 – separate battalion of Marines, who are based in Temryuk and 10 BTR-80. “
He also noted that “on February 22-23, … IL-76 flights airlifted from Kubinka (Moscow region) to Anapa personnel of the 45th Airborne Special Forces units and four Il-76 flights from Pskov to Anapa more division relocated. And from Sochi Anapa airlifted six Mi-8 aircraft (obviously, Mi-8 – MFN) “- said Tyahnibok.

What is known is that as Interfax Ukraine reported, “At the entrance to Sevastopol near restaurant “Puck” at the Yalta highway appeared antitank hedgehogs - crew patrol says it measure against frequent carjackings in Sebastopol, said “Sevastopol newspaper.”Source

A Naval Infantry Brigade, equipped with the PT-76 or T-80 and BRDM-2, consists of 2 Tank Battalions, and 4 to 5 Naval Infantry Battalions, one motorised with BTR-60-series amphibious vehicles. A tank battalion originally had 36 MBTs. At least one infantry battalion is airborne trained, while all of the remaining infantry battalions are trained to be able to carry out air assault missions. Source

Perhaps the most troubling thing about rumours of Russian military movement is the ‘proof’ provided below in the video. It is unconfirmed so take the video as is but the Olympics are over and Russia sees the government in Kiev as no more than mutinous criminals and completely illegitimate.

That picture says it all. I fully expect Russia to send in troops to, at the very the least, the Crimean Peninsula. But, if it is true and they are massing in Belgorod than I expect nothing less than an invasion of the Eastern Ukraine.

More grimly, this report continues, General Gerasimov was “advised” by President Putin to contact his NATO counterpart to inform the West of an “immediate order”given to Black Sea Naval Infantry and Coastal Defense forces in the Crimea oblast to protect the vital Isthmus of Perekop, which is the narrow 5-7 km wide strip of land that connects the peninsula of Crimea to the mainland of Ukraine.
Russian troops put onto “full war footing” to defend Crimea, this report says, include the nearly 1,200 soldier/marines of the 810th Naval Infantry Brigade along with supporting forces belonging to the 880 Separate Naval Infantry Battalion, 881 Separate Assault Battalion, 888 Separate Reconnaissance Battalion, 1613 Separate Artillery Battery and the 1619 Separate Air-Defense Artillery Battery.

Again, if true, and there is no reason for it not to be, we are talking about the Ukraine here, than this could very well spell the beginning of a much bigger and disasterous war, World War 3 even.. Russia has every reason to fight this, politically and militarily.

My note: The same situation is going on in Bangkok, Thailand, and Kiev, Ukraine where civilians are protesting by the thousands. The MSM don't want the western civilians to get any ideas so they don't show it at all. There are two sides to this.

2. Is there a struggle for strategic land. Venezuela and Ukraine are both Russia minded but wil they be after the dust clears ... I think not!

3. The people of these nations are fighting with the idea of freedom in mind, but will this really free them...? Only time will tell.
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And that’s just what came out in real time, over Twitter and YouTube, before any real investigation is carried out. Online media is next, a city of 645,000 inhabitants has been taken off the internet amid mounting repression, and this blog itself has been the object of a Facebook “block” campaign.

What we saw were not “street clashes”, what we saw is a state-hatched offensive to suppress and terrorize its opponents.

Here atCaracas Chronicles we’re doing what it can to document the crisis, but there’s only so much one tiny, zero-budget blog can do.

After the major crackdown on the streets of large (and small) Venezuelan cities last night, I expected some kind of response in the major international news outlets this morning. I understand that with an even bigger and more photogenic freakout ongoing in an even more strategically important country, we weren’t going to be front-page-above-the-fold, but I’m staggered this morning to wake up, scan the press and find…

Nothing.

As of 11 a.m. this morning, the New York Times World Section has…nothing.

NYTimes – nothing

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The Guardian’s World News has some limp why-are-you-protesting? piece that made some sense before last night’s tropical pogrom, but none after it.

The Guardian: Fluff

So…basically nothing.
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The BBC is still leading its Latin America section on a Leopoldo story, as though last night had been just business as usual.

BBC – Would you guess a sort of pogrom took place in Venezuela from looking at that?

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CNN is also out chasing the thing that was the story in the old Venezuela:

CNN: Your breaking news is broken.

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Al Jazeera English never got the memo:

AJE: NPI

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Even places that love to hate the Venezuelan government are asleep at the wheel:

Et tu, Ailes?

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The level of disengagement on display is deeply shocking.

Venezuela’s domestic media blackout is joined by a parallel international blackout, one born not of censorship but of disinterest and inertia. It’s hard to express the sense of helplessness you get looking through these pages and finding nothing. Venezuela burns; nobody cares.

Let me put this clearly. Y’all need to step it up. The time to discard what you thought you knew about the way things work in Venezuela is now.